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leon panetta is 74 years old and he came to washington during the nixon years. he was working for a republican in congress who lost, wasn't conservative enough for california, and he then went to work in the nixon administration and he had the great wlcome you can decide whether his fortune or misfortune, to be put in charge of the department of health in education and welfare's school desegregation task force at a time when nixon had promised strom thurmond and others in the south that they wouldn't enforce school desegregation rules. so panetta ended up getting fired and writing a book about that and i had no against us are researching this, later became chairman of the house budget committee in years when it was an agreement between democrats and president h. w. bush to reduce the deficit. he was in the clinton white house in those four years when we ran the surplus, which seems like a long time ago, and it was a long time ago. and now, of course, he went down to be the director the cia and the secretary of defense where he is busy defending the defense depar
leon panetta is 74 years old and he came to washington during the nixon years. he was working for a republican in congress who lost, wasn't conservative enough for california, and he then went to work in the nixon administration and he had the great wlcome you can decide whether his fortune or misfortune, to be put in charge of the department of health in education and welfare's school desegregation task force at a time when nixon had promised strom thurmond and others in the south that they...
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hillary clinton, petraeus, gates, panetta were concerned about missing an opportunity. this was a guy who killed 3000 americans and if america hadn't learned that we had him in our sites and didn't pull the trigger. >> guest: . >> host: that is where the leadership portion comes in. i think certainly the president early on given the lives at stake in the raid was certainly something readers could understand by what happened afterwards i think was really quite striking and here again we perhaps see the fingerprints of valerie jarrett? >> guest: perhaps. bin laden's body had splashed off the deck hours before and now here is the president of the united states racing to the television cameras to tell the world and the intelligence and military communities were just apoplectic. why would you give away one advantage we have in the war which is to have surprised. he took two hefty trash bird -- trash bags full of documents, thumb drives, hard drives. why not spend a week or two with the documentation with the cia and examine those and translate those? you could have located e
hillary clinton, petraeus, gates, panetta were concerned about missing an opportunity. this was a guy who killed 3000 americans and if america hadn't learned that we had him in our sites and didn't pull the trigger. >> guest: . >> host: that is where the leadership portion comes in. i think certainly the president early on given the lives at stake in the raid was certainly something readers could understand by what happened afterwards i think was really quite striking and here again...
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imus leon panetta? was she in the room? >> unclear, but probably not. there were a lot of discussions between valerie jarrett and the president himself. barack obama has said about valerie jarrett company told "the new york times" in 2009, i never make an important decision without talking to valerie jarrett first. he said he may support two to three times a day. if you look at what has this deluxe can you notice in the first of the administration, while we were hunting bin laden, to direct here, leon panetta only visited the white house nine times. so we have two or three times a day in one hand versus nine times in two years. >> host: you describe in your book how he met with the president far more often than the white house loves. you mention in the discussion in this particular case study that the president was able to make smart decisions, but never the big decisions along the way. >> guest: that's right. people tend to think of it as a movie where the president picks up the phone and tells them where to go and they take off. but it is complex and
imus leon panetta? was she in the room? >> unclear, but probably not. there were a lot of discussions between valerie jarrett and the president himself. barack obama has said about valerie jarrett company told "the new york times" in 2009, i never make an important decision without talking to valerie jarrett first. he said he may support two to three times a day. if you look at what has this deluxe can you notice in the first of the administration, while we were hunting bin...
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hillary clinton, robert gates and leon panetta. was she in the room? >> guest: not clear but probably not. there were discussions between valerie jared and the president. remember what barack obama said. he told "the new york times" in 2009 and for making an important decision without talking to valerie first. he said they were there two to three times a day. in the first administration while they were hunting bin laden, according to the white house visitor logs the director leon panetta only visits the white house nine times, so two to three times a day on the one hand versus nine times in two years. >> you describe how a number of political advisers met judging by the white house logperch. >> host: this is the interest in the politics. >> host: dimension the president was able to make small decisions but never the big decisions along the way. >> guest: people tend to think of it like a movie the president picks up the phone and tells them to go and cut to the next scene. the fact of the decision is complex and involves a lot of moving parts they've t
hillary clinton, robert gates and leon panetta. was she in the room? >> guest: not clear but probably not. there were discussions between valerie jared and the president. remember what barack obama said. he told "the new york times" in 2009 and for making an important decision without talking to valerie first. he said they were there two to three times a day. in the first administration while they were hunting bin laden, according to the white house visitor logs the director...
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is an arms race, definitely an ongoing arms race and it's fast and furious because people like leon panetta have caused drones the only game in town. everybody wants a charm. not only states, but not to act or spirit we are not talking about nuclear technology. it's a lot simpler and they can easily get their hands on nature on. let's think of the case that happened in iran. you might remember just a couple months back that the iranians said that they had hacked into a very sophisticated u.s. surveillance drone and brought it down without a scratch. and they showed it to the world's tv cameras and said thank you ramage, president obama for this very sophisticated case you have given us in a couple months later said they had reverse engineered it and are now making the run very sophisticated surveillance drone. so you can see that what goes around unfortunately usually comes around. you've got to wonder what other countries are thinking. what our opinions thinking? what are the chinese thinking? who they say there are terrorists like the tibetans or the uighurs that it is an all around the w
is an arms race, definitely an ongoing arms race and it's fast and furious because people like leon panetta have caused drones the only game in town. everybody wants a charm. not only states, but not to act or spirit we are not talking about nuclear technology. it's a lot simpler and they can easily get their hands on nature on. let's think of the case that happened in iran. you might remember just a couple months back that the iranians said that they had hacked into a very sophisticated u.s....
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hillary clinton, petraeus,, panetta are concerned about missing an opportunity. this is a guy who killed 3000 americans. if america ever learned was how to mentor sites and pull the trigger. >> that to the leadership quotient comes down. just go right. >> host: the president's decision early on was certainly something readers could understand. what would happen afterwards i think was really quite striking. here again perhaps even fingerprints of valerie garrett? >> guest: perhaps. imam's body has splashed out the back only hours before. and now, here's the president of the united states racing to the television cameras to tell the world. the intelligence and military communities purchase of chocolate cake. why would you give away one advantage you really have an war, which is that a surprise. you could have used -- the seals are too hefty trash bags full of documents, thumb drives, hard drives out of bin laden slayer. why not spend a week or two with the document exploitation teams and examine those, translate those. you could have located every senior al qaeda o
hillary clinton, petraeus,, panetta are concerned about missing an opportunity. this is a guy who killed 3000 americans. if america ever learned was how to mentor sites and pull the trigger. >> that to the leadership quotient comes down. just go right. >> host: the president's decision early on was certainly something readers could understand. what would happen afterwards i think was really quite striking. here again perhaps even fingerprints of valerie garrett? >> guest:...